[RACIAL DISCRIMINATION]. Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Ninth Legislature of the State of Louisiana… Donaldsonville: C. W. Duhy, State Printer, 1830. 8vo (231 x 155 mm). Parallel text in English and French. Bound in contemporary full calf (spine perished, boards heavily worn, front board detached, rear board nearly detached, free endpapers lacking, title-page with two inkstamps, including one for the bar association of New York library, text toned, soiled, shaken). FIRST EDITION. On pp. 90-96 are discriminatory laws (“An Act to prevent free persons of colour from entering into this State, and for other purposes” and “An Act to punish the crimes therein mentioned, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the state of Louisiana… That whosoever shall write, print, publish or distribute, any thing having a tendency to produce discontent among the free coloured population of the state, or insubordination among the slaves therein, shall on conviction thereof… be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labour for life or suffer death, at the discretion of the court.”)